The first table below looks at the demand for SS7 skills in IT jobs advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SS7 over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the Manchester region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Signaling System No. 7 (SS7)
Rank 193 - 168
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing SS7 1 0 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 0.025% - 0.127%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.169% - 0.924%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 5
Average salary £30,500 - £24,000
UK excluding London average salary £24,000 £30,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-20.00% -25.00%
All Communications & Networking
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
593 597 541
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 14.61% 16.46% 13.71%
Number of salaries quoted 491 534 470
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,000 £23,500 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £75,000 £52,050
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
SS7
North West

SS7
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing SS7 across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Manchester SS7 Jobs Demand Trend

SS7
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing SS7 across the Manchester region.

Manchester SS7 Salary Trend

SS7
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester region citing SS7 also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited SS7.

1 3 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (100.00%) SIGTRAN
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
1 3 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 3 (100.00%) System Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) UNIX
1 3 (100.00%) ISEB
1 3 (100.00%) Telecoms

SS7
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester region citing SS7 also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited SS7. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) SIGTRAN
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 3 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Systems Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Test Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Systems Test Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 3 (100.00%) System Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) ISEB
1 3 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 3 (100.00%) Degree